Le Show; 1990-01-18

Well, he's uninterrupted without any pledging this week, it's Harry Sheeran-Lisho coming up next right here on KCRW, Santa Monica, a community service of Santa Monica College broadcasting to Los Angeles and Orange counties of 89.9 FM, Ventura at 89.1, the Greater Palm Springs Area at 89.3 and 90.9, Antelope Valley at 88.1 and the Ridgecrest Area at 107.1. KCRW is National Public Radio for most of Southern California. For more news from National Public Radio, tune in to all things considered. Today and all things considered, hanging out in San Francisco where the cafes and street life influence the many books of Herbert Gould, who calls the San Francisco? Herbert Gould. Gold? Oh, Herbert Gould, who looks like Gould, but he, you know, he, in fact, calls San Francisco the last great American village and getting rid of Czechoslovakia's secret police. Those are two different stories

that are completely different. Plus the latest news that's later today on all things considered, heard from 5 to 6 p.m. here on KCRW. Now, is that village capital V or little V? Because it makes a difference to some of it. It's capital V, but, you know, in fact, they're all in caps. Oh, I see. When you're in love with the whole world in caps, thanks Julie. In 10 seconds, it will be 10 a.m. Hey, that's time for a show, isn't it? Well, if it isn't, it darn well should be. Can you hear all the fans that are on here today, ladies and gentlemen? I don't mean, you know, appreciators of fine radio programming. I mean literal fans. Let's just. Yeah, there's one now. It's because, yes, once again, the air conditioning is bluey in the Lachodo. I know we raised $4 million just last week to take care of things like this, but the air conditioning is down. So there is a fan every four inches, literally.

So there'll be a slight rustling, a slight ruffling of the Lacho hosts plumage from time to time during this show program. If you notice it, it's nothing, nothing atmospheric. It's just the fans. Now, before a formal opening to the broadcast, one more thing, this may be the last week, I don't know, of the moon boot on one of my feet. So I've done virtually everything else with this damn thing, but it did occur to me this week that before it goes away forever, one of the sounds heard not frequently enough on at least American radio is the sound of Velcro. So for those of you who are amassing your own sound effects, collections out there, and don't have enough Velcro of your own. Here, this is the way the moon boot

attaches all up and down the leg, and it is, ladies and gentlemen, the sound of, well, with a fan in the background, it is the sound of Velcro. Oh, here's another one. And one more. Yeah. So for those of you who had your dad machines in place, you now have the world's largest collection of sounds of Velcro with a fan in the background. Hello, welcome to the show. Like I'm holding you tonight, too many nights, then I'm late, too much powder and too much

paint, so you can't hide, from the time of the time, to there and there, fingers up and down the shower to rest, to then find some tender moment there in your career. My boys are safe, you look so fine, but don't come back for a second time when you come high, from the time of the time. Oh, you're the same boy, never said I was on the phone, did it tell you that you're loving down forever more, with a little shoe, cheap perfume, quick and bad in the hotel room where you come

high, from the time of the time, to there and there, fingers up and down the shower to rest, to then find some tender moment there in your career. My boys are safe, you look so fine, but don't come back for a second time when you come high, from the time of the time. Oh, you're the same boy, never said I was on the phone, did it tell you that you're loving

down forever more, with a little shoe, cheap perfume, quick and bad in the hotel room Oh, you're the same boy, never said I was on the phone, did it tell you that you're loving down forever more, with a little shoe, cheap perfume, quick and bad in the hotel room in the hotel room, with a little shoe, cheap perfume, quick and bad in the hotel room with a little shoe, cheap perfume, quick and bad in the hotel room

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in the hotel room with a little shoe, cheap perfume, quick and bad in the hotel room with a little shoe, cheap perfume, quick and bad in the hotel room with a little shoe, cheap perfume, quick and bad in the hotel room in the hotel room with a little shoe, cheap perfume, quick and bad in the hotel room with a little shoe, cheap perfume

quick and bad in the hotel room with a little shoe, cheap perfume, quick and bad in the hotel room with a little shoe, cheap perfume, quick and bad in the hotel room with a little shoe, cheap perfume, quick and bad in the hotel room with a little shoe, cheap perfume, quick and bad in the hotel room with a little shoe, cheap perfume Ooh, after the pianist died there in February 1987, the villa became the property of the Liberaci Foundation, which gives music scholarships to colleges nationwide mainly through funds raised at the Liberaci Museum.

In Las Vegas, the foundation put the house on the market after failing to get Palm Springs approval to turn it into a museum. It would have been, I guess, the Liberaci Museum South. The buyer, whose name is Stefan Heming, has the right to negotiate separately for any of Liberaci's belongings remaining in the house. The three-bedroom three-bath 2800 square foot house was built in the mid-50s for actress Mae West, but Liberaci bought it instead adding a piano-shaped pool indoor Japanese and Roman tubs outside mirrors a chandelier and a dining room mural with caricatures of himself at the piano flanked by Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Bob Hope, and Debbie Reynolds. And Tom Seleck has put his Wilshire Boulevard bachelor pad on the market at $950,000.

The condo was listed with the Seleck Company, a marketing firm headed by Bob Seleck, the actor's father, Dad, Seleckondo, please, thank you. What else is stupid? Oh, yeah. Now, remember this whole controversy that erupted started here, really. Ladies and gentlemen, if I do say so myself, then I do. About downtown was it uptown, uptown cigarettes. I forget. I say so myself, and then I forget how I say so. Uptown cigarettes, the cigarettes that were going to be marketed particularly to black consumers and a great deal of uproar convinced the RJ Reynolds Company to get out of the uptown business. Well, according to the Washington Post, they're back again. RJ Reynolds plans to introduce a brand of cigarettes soon that, according to the detailed marketing strategy, targets young, poorly educated white women, whom the company calls Viral Females. Yeah, Reynolds plans to test the new brand called Dakota, this April in Houston, April in Houston, the marketing plans chief goal is to capture the lucrative market among 18 to 24-year-old women, the only group of Americans whose rate of smoking continues to increase.

The advertising campaign focuses on a certain group of women whose favorite pastimes according to the marketing plan include cruising, partying, and attending tractor pulls with their boyfriends. Maybe they should be smoking, you know. The extensive proposals for Project VF for Viral Females describe the preferred Dakota smoker as a woman with no education beyond high school whose favorite TV shows are Rosanne and who likes evening soap opera stars and whose chief aspiration is to get married in her early 20s and spend her free time with her boyfriend. Now, why is that, you know, it occurred to me earlier, Virginia Slims have been marketed to women for years. Why is that any better than marketing to blacks or Latinos or anybody else or worse for that matter? I don't know, something to think about. And while you're thinking about that, listen to this, sometimes ladies and gentlemen, you may get the idea that the depictions of certain characters in spooflets on this program such as bad days at Black Rock are caricatures, exaggerations, unfair pot-shotting at distinguished broadcasters.

They ever thought that for those of you who might have hear from the usual unnamed sources because if they weren't unnamed, you'd know their names. Here, ladies and gentlemen, this week, actual tape of Dan Rather in Soweto. I consider this out of control here, so I'll do whatever you want to do. Take this and let's get up, get everybody rolling. What do you think? Like we're all right here?

Sometimes it's better. I did not wash my hair last night because I thought with certain amount of stiffness would probably help it. What do you think? Okay, questions whether to launch it for tomorrow, but we'll make that decision to go along, I guess. Okay, thanks. Yeah, we'll make that decision as we go along. Thanks. I'm deceiving and swindling and such, and I feel just as clever as I am, but I seem to be losing my touch or losing my touch. Yes, I'm clever, but clever as it can be, my employer gets all of my take. All I get is my daily spaghetti, while he purges and travels and came, lots of the use, lots of the use. There's not profit in cheating, it's also defeating everyone, all so wrong, if you just have to pass in the mall.

That old hag is no use in this chip joint, not her so have I made on her yet, and the one thing that pays in this clip joint is my fraudulent game of roulette, he's my game of roulette. But I have to pay so much protection to the chief of police and his men, that each day when he makes his collection, I'm a poor man all over again, lots of things. It's a very fine thing to be prefect, shaking down all the gamblers in town. My position has only one defect. There is someone who's shaking me down, who is shaking me down, or this fellow unhappily knows me, and is on to the game that I play, and he threatens to shame and expose me.

If I do not incessantly pay, what's the use? What's the use? Oh, he's seeking to deny me and slimy confiding, it's wrong, oh, so wrong, if you just have to pass it on. I could live very well by extortion, but I simply can't keep what I earn, for I haven't a sense of proportion, and roulette is my only concern, my only concern. I have a system that's extremely clever, which I learned from a groupie, a friend, and I should go on winning forever, but I do seem to lose in the end. What's the use? What's the use? Oh, he's cheating and blocking, you end up with an option.

It's wrong, oh, so wrong, if you just have to pass it on. This is your brain, and this is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. This is your brain on drugs. This is your brain on drugs, with a pound of ground beef, a can of crushed tomatoes, a half cup of milk, and a bay leaf.

This is your brain on drugs, with a street crew working in the next brain. And this is your brain on drugs, when you've left it on the stove too long, and it caused a kitchen fire that spread to the neighborhood of your brain. Any questions? The partnership for A Brain Free America. This is your brain, and this is your brain. This is your brain, and this is your brain. This is your brain, and this is your brain.

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This is your brain, and this is your brain. Is it because we've overdosed on these images of Elvis in his bloated, later straining at whatever phase? Could we need more of that on TV?

But for those of you who might be worried that the two reassuring words of 1990 might be fourth Reich, some good news. The 1990 Ober Amargau Passion Play in the small German town in the Bavarian Alps has made some changes in its script since the last production in 1984. The Passion Play dates to 1663 when Bubonic Plague ravaged the mountain valley where Ober Amargau sits. When the villagers vowed to stage a Passion Play every 10 years, if the plague abated, the epidemic vanished in what was considered a miracle. The Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League have sought to change aspects of the play they believed maligned Jews.

Jesus has a larger popular following among Jews. In my particular favorite change, the Jewish high priests who presided at the trial that led to the condemnation of Jesus will no longer have horns. See you ladies and gentlemen. It is a new world. I'll read the trades for you. Thank you very much, trades river valley boys. In the almost 45 years that this program has been on the air, we've shared with you news and views from the trade publications of almost every business in this country.

Thus it is appropriate, I guess, that we finally come around full circle and bring you today a couple items from Current, the newspaper of Public Broadcasting. I will read it for you. First of all in the why waste the paper department, this on the front page of Current, oil and energy related companies bank rolled more of public television in the last seven years than any other industry according to a recent report by the Public Broadcasting Service. The report is compiled from information public television stations submit to BBS annually.

You can just watch it and know that. You don't need a report, but it makes it official, I guess. And now the real news. Some top news staffers at National Public Radio, angry about the news division's proposed budget and working conditions on the news division's second floor, have criticized other NPR divisions and NPR president Douglas J. Bennett. The anger erupted at a stormy meeting that has left many staff members bitter. At the meeting, National Public Radio newswoman Koki Roberts complained that news employees consider the amount proposed for the 1991 budget inadequate.

We're exhausted. We're tired of being underpaid. We're tired of working in a filthy, dirty, disgusting building. And we don't see how we can continue doing it. Roberts remarks were followed on the tape recording of the meeting by applause. Roberts and NPR newswoman Nina Totenberg pushed President Bennett to allow the news division to raise its own funds. Totenberg and Bennett exchanged heated remarks when she said she could find a fundraiser who could do better than NPR's development division. Bennett told Totenberg he would not permit it and called her remarks, quote, highly offensive. Good. All I can say is God damn good. They are offensive. And I hope you're offended. Unquote.

Who knew. They all sound so nice. The world is full of surprises when I read the trades for you. The world is full of surprises when I read the trades for you. The world is full of surprises when I read the trades for you.

The world is full of surprises when I read the trades for you. The world is full of surprises when I read the trades for you.

The world is full of surprises when I read the trades for you. The world is full of surprises when I read the trades for you. The world is full of surprises when I read the trades for you. I don't think I've ever seen that.

There. Stop it there. Okay. Now what? Well, that's where I look away from him. That's where you should go before I look away from him. Mr. President, if we're going to make those kinds of edits, I'm not sure the judge is going to be all that happy. Well, Marvin, let him put his face up there, turning away out of a two-shot, and we'll see how happy he'll be. Ah, heater's running. Okay, let's keep going. Mr. President, till the notes in your diary indicate that you were at that meeting. Just looks stupid, that's all. Not knowing you were at the meeting? No, no, no, the end of that shot. You see me looking away, you start thinking, where's he looking? At least, I don't know, put in an insert shot of the judge,

so you think I'm looking at his honor or something. Well, yes, that was the meeting where Mr. Casey told me. And we're out here. Okay, what do you want there, black, a nice blue? What do we have? What do you call those things? Slang. What have I? The judge says, National Security Material Deleted. I don't know. Did you order it? I'll order it from who? From the deli? I'm here. Now, I'm ordering it. No, it's just that the girl who usually does that, goes home at six. Maybe you could just cut to me, listening. Mr. President, you're the one who's talking. No, no, that won't work. Okay, I can do it. Okay. Frank Sinatra had an idea about what they should say. He should be a little drawing a cartoon of a technician,

so scratching his head like he can't figure out what's wrong. Uh-huh. And in front of him, in big balloon letters, just the word oops. Pretty good, huh? I think just National Security Material Deleted. Okay. With the little technician, because the graphics guy goes home at five. Just the words. Okay. You know what type style you want? Hmm. Fine. Okay. 60 point. Fine. We can go on while I'm doing this. It's a dirty, dirty case. They came to Fedor's wife by mistake. All right, sir. Yeah, so we've identified the lady. Doesn't he look like a Fedor Dan daily? Let's look at this document that you initialed following the lady. What do you think?

Do we need that? Okay. Looks fine. But aren't there too many ease and deleted? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Should we go back? Let's just go through the first time and spot the edits, okay? Okay, you're the doctor. No, he's the lawyer. Probably Lou Ayers is the doctor. Okay. Those looked like my initials. Did you read the rest of the documents, sir? Not yet. We'll do them. We're going to get that out. What? It's fine. Jerry will identify with that. I looked at the darn camera. I didn't know where they heard it was. They just nailed it right there. See? Okay. Stop it, please. Okay. We're taking that out. Yeah.

Yeah. Put it on the list. 10, 44, 30, 23. Okay. Got it. Yes. This seems to be one of the meetings I tear. And one of the meetings I chaired. Okay. That we have to fix. You don't build up again. They had one of those. They called it the Sponorism, or the Old Shower of Stars, which, of course, those days they did live. He said, The new 19th, 59th Faithler. You know what? He inscracks up, and builds the stain there. Doesn't know what's going on. It just flies open or something. They can loop there. We have any looping scheduled? Yes, sir. Good. Now, sir. Oh. So, he says, whatever you call it, it's a hell of a car. It brings them out. Okay. Let's see. Well, the court didn't approve any looping, a sweetening expenses. Hmm. Well, it's a hell of a way to run a video trail. Yes.

Keep going. Fast forward to where he's finished reading. Okay. On the other hand, sir, look at it this way. Here? How's that? At least another five minutes in. Okay. If we looped the mistake, the funny story wouldn't work. Well, of course, you're right, Marvin. Going to vein of me, wasn't it? Well. Well, that's why you get the big bucks. Later that evening, the group has taken a dinner break. While Jean and Marvin eat in the editing facility his own dining room, the president shares a meal in a nearby Italian restaurant. With his trusted wife, Nancy. I don't know, my man. You need a stump. What is it, Ronnie?

I just wonder if the guy has ever let a courtroom scene before. It was a shadow across my chest you wouldn't believe. Well, I still wish I could be there with you, darling. Well, at least you're here with me. What did you do today? Well, I had to read the rest of my turn for the cassette version. My voice is shot. When hebs are more vino. You know what I've never understood. What's that, dear? Why vino isn't Italian for vine, wouldn't you think? You know, darling, we'd never be in this mess now. If we'd made Mike stay in 86, it's true. He didn't like Point Dexter, you remember? I remember I didn't like Point Dexter. Wasn't it Mike who said that John was born with a silver pipe in his mouth? No, that's when all of our friends started to desert us. I remember I was just reading that part aloud today.

Oh sure, but even if John had stayed down at the shoe-shaning level, we still might have ended up with our keystres in 20-tone. I suppose. I guess he's never going to bring the cheese. Oh well, I wasn't hungry anyway. But, darling, I don't know. I hate to see you having to go through this. Now, when you, when we should finally be having some fun. My mids, it's all fun. Well, I can't believe the job went to a man like John Point Dexter. I mean, Ronnie, he's grown a mustache to appear more trustworthy. We must have been crazy to trust him. I don't think we were crazy, Mommy. Do you? I don't know, darling. I just don't know. Did Bill und again ever really bring down the house?

Next time, rehearsing for looping on Hellcat of the White House, The Bell Area. So these are the ropes, the tricks of the trade, the rules of the road. You're one of the dopes, for whom they were made, the rules of the road. You follow that kiss and recklessly miss a bend of the road. Then suddenly this, the end of the road.

So love is a hoax, a glittering string, a little white light. But these are the jokes, and what if they bring the tears to your eyes? Well, love often shows a funny return, the brighter it blows, the longer you burn, and Lord only knows love has little concern for the fools of the road. But that's how it goes. You live when you learn the rules of the road. You live when you learn the rules of the road. But that's how it goes.

You live when you learn the rules of the road. And everyone knows that that's how it goes, the rules of the road. I don't know what the mechanics of it are, really. It's just this little jack in the back of the shoe. I think we're under something here. And you just jack. Jack, jack. Jack it up as many times as you need. 10, 20 times. 70 times. Because you know, it doesn't really do anything to the shoe. You can jack it up many times you want. You know, intimidate people. They just see the shoe, they intimidate it because they know what it costs. Because in order to pay all of us, you know, they had to jack. Jack. Jack up the price.

Some people like BMWs. I like Jim Shoes. Because BMWs don't cost enough. The Jack. By Rijak. If you got the Jack. Jack. Jack it off. I came to the bathroom with the sun.

I came to the bathroom. And the toilet was. A professor talking to the German. A plane from Canada. And he said, Oh, I'm so excited. And I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I was a little boy. I'm a little boy. I was a little boy. That night, I was in the beach. And I didn't see anything. And I didn't see anything. I didn't see anything. I didn't see anything. But if you want to know, the black one. And the blue one will pass. Black one. Black one. I said, Oh, of course I'm going. Black one. I just came. I just came. I said,

Oh, of course I'm going. Black one. Black one. Yeah. I came, I just came. I said, You know what, Black one. I said, You know what? I'm so happy. I was a little boy. Black one. Black one. Black one. Black one. Black one. Black one. Yeah, yeah. Pit out of my? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pit out off my? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pit out of my? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pit out of my? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pit out of my? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd been doing something about the nature of the universe. I found out things are getting better, just people that are getting worse. Well, ain't that just like living?

Just like chemistry? Ain't that just like living? Whatever happened to real life? I've been sitting around thinking about ultimate knowledge and such. Smartest man in the whole round world really don't know that much. Well, ain't that just like living? They even own your wife? Ain't that just like living? Whatever happened to real life? I've been doing something about the future of the human race. If people don't stop killing people, it's gonna be hopeless for you. Well, ain't that just like living?

Just like tall and stride? Ain't that just like living? Whatever happened to real life? I've been doing something about the future of the human race. If people don't stop killing people, it's gonna be hopeless for you. Ain't that just like living? Whatever happened to real life? Whatever happened to real life? I think it's out in cassette. I'm not sure. I'm the last to know, you know? I'm the last to know, you know? I'm the last to know, you know? Ladies and gentlemen,

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